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21 August 1918 : Sgt Sebastian Mitterhofer, 7 Komp, Kgl Bay 10 Inf Regt ‘König'.

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He was married with one child. At the outbreak of the war he was an office worker in Weisenberg, Bavaria. An active reservist, he therefore saw service from the very earliest days of the war. He was in action from August 1914 in Lorraine, then on the Meuse, at Verdun, the Somme, Arras, Third Ypres, Cambrai, Dixmude and Verdun (1918) to Augus...

10 November 1917 : Theodor Schwarzmuller

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Theodor Schwarzmuller was born in Sagstetten, Bavaria in 1894. A book-keeper before the war, Theodor was called into service in the Autumn of 1914 and saw frontline service as from November 1914. First engaged during the latter stages of the 1st Battle of Ypres, he remained on the Western Front and took part in several major engagements during...

11 December 1917: Pte William Robert Simons

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William Simons was born at South Wigston, Leicestershire in 1892. Moving to Sutton-in-Craven, Yorkshire, William was employed as a spinning overlooker and was a keen member of a local brass band. He lived with his father on Wighill Street. William enlisted in the local territorials (with whom he was a member of the regimental band) and he was...

31 July 1917 : Inf. Sebastian Scheugenpflug

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Born in 1894, Lengthal, Bavaria, Sebastian was a grocer. A recalled reservist in August 1914, he first saw action during the First Battle of Ypres in October 1914. He was a veteran of the Battles of Fromelles, the Somme and Arras through 1915 to 1917. He was killed in action by shrapnel to the head on 31st July 1917 – the opening day of the Th...